So just how much of a dove is Bernanke? Here are the inflation stats

One of the highlights of Tuesday’s testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was his exchange with Sen. Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican. (The transcript of that exchange can be found here.) Bernanke denied Corker’s assertion that he was a “dove,” citing his record on inflation.

Is Bernanke right? J.P. Morgan’s Michael Feroli has calculated the statistics on the average inflation record for past chairman, using headline PCE as far back as 1947 and CPI before that.

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